WOF 120: Evangelization and the Need for Community

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 26 March 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode Bishop Barron discusses an intrinsic aspect of evangelization; community. Not only is there an intrinsic need of mankind to have a community, which the Church teaches is part of man’s nature, but also the need to have a certain kind of community within the Christian life. A listener asks how we ought to distinguish between authentic conscience and what CS Lewis called "the poison of subjectivism"?

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Topics Discussed

0:04 - Introduction, Bishop Barron's recent trips
3:00 - Why does contemporary culture bring a sense of isolation and loneliness?
5:45 - How do we find a balance between the autonomy of the individual and the need for community?
8:15 - What are the benefits and drawbacks of social media in community building?
11:45 - Why do humans need each other?
14:30 - How do we bolster parish community?
17:30 - What role will the Word on Fire Movement play in building Catholic community?
20:30 - What does Bishop Barron recommend for those looking for community?
22:00 - Listener Question: What is the difference between the authentic conscience and individual subjectivism?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm your host, Jared Zimmer, the director of Outreach
0:09.4	and Mission here at Word on Fire. And as always, a warm welcome to Bishop Robert Barron.
0:14.6	Bishop, it's good to be with you again. Hey, Jared. Always good to hear your voice. I
0:18.3	can see it. We're doing Skype here so I can see you too on the screen. So yeah, it's
0:22.2	amazing. The modern technology and all your kids are doing well. They're doing well.
0:26.7	Yeah, still growing like weeds and the boys are doing well and a little anesthesia is growing
0:31.6	like a weed. So it's good. Little anesthesia, who's what about? She's not six months yet.
0:35.9	Not yet. Now she turns five months here soon. So yeah. So listen, I know you've been doing
0:41.9	a lot of traveling here lately and actually two of the recent ones are you able to go to
0:46.6	Philadelphia and Denver for two lectures. Maybe you can fill us in on the topics and what
0:52.2	all you spoke about. Yeah, they were both were good. Though I had a difficult time getting
0:56.4	two Denver, but that's just because the airlines. But I went to Philly and I gave the Cardinal
1:02.7	Foley lecture, named for the famous Cardinal John Foley, who for many years was director
1:07.5	of communications at the Vatican. And I talked really about Word on Fire there. So a lot of
1:11.8	things we've been talking about you and I, how it developed and I sort of called lessons
1:17.2	from the Word on Fire story. And it was really designed for the seminarians there who might
1:22.9	be interested in doing this kind of work. And then in Denver, I gave a more reflective sort
1:28.0	of talk. It was on relativism. So the Archbishop there, Archbishop Aquila asked me to speak on
1:33.5	that topic. And I went into some of the genealogy of relativism where it comes from intellectually
1:40.4	and then why it's a danger and then how we can engage it. So that was to a very enthusiastic
1:45.3	crowd at a big parish outside of Denver. And both of those were, you know, what do they call
1:50.6	it, live stream. They were broadcast simultaneously. So that was a good thing.
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